1931 Italian Grand Prix
Race details | |||
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Race 1 of 3 in the 1931 European Championship | |||
Date | 24 May 1931 | ||
Official name | IX Gran Premio d'Italia | ||
Location |
Autodromo Nazionale Monza Monza, Italy | ||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
Course length | 10.00 km (6.21 mi) | ||
Distance | 155 laps, 1550.03 km (963.14 mi) | ||
Pole position | |||
Driver | Delage | ||
Grid positions set by ballot | |||
Fastest lap | |||
Driver | Giuseppe Campari | Alfa Romeo | |
Time | 3:32.8 | ||
Podium | |||
First | Alfa Romeo | ||
Second | Alfa Romeo | ||
Third |
| Bugatti |
The 1931 Italian Grand Prix was a Grand Prix motor race held at Monza on 24 May 1931. The race was the first of three Grands Prix that constituted the inaugural European Championship. The Alfa Romeo works team pairing of Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari won the race, ahead of their teammates Ferdinando Minoia and Baconin Borzacchini in second, while third place went to the works Bugattis of Albert Divo and Guy Bouriat.[1]
Entries
- ^1 — Luigi Arcangeli was originally designated as Campari's co-driver in car #26, but he was replaced by Marinoni after he was killed during practice.[1]
Starting grid
Grid positions were allocated by drawing lots.[1]
First row | ||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||
Sénéchal Frètet Delage |
Wimille Gaupillat Bugatti |
Campari Marinoni Alfa Romeo | ||
Second row | ||||
4 | 5 | 6 | ||
Minoia Zehender Alfa Romeo |
Lehoux Étancelin Bugatti |
Ivanowski Stoffel Mercedes-Benz | ||
Third row | ||||
7 | 8 | 9 | ||
Nuvolari Borzacchini Alfa Romeo |
di Vecchio Ferrari Talbot |
Divo Bouriat Bugatti | ||
Fourth row | ||||
10 | 11 | |||
Caniato Tadini Alfa Romeo |
Varzi Chiron Bugatti | |||
Fifth row | ||||
12 | 13 | 14 | ||
Ruggeri Balestrero Talbot |
Klinger Ghersi Maserati |
Pirola Lurani Alfa Romeo | ||
Classification
Pos | No | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/Retired | Distance (km) | Grid | Points |
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1 | 26 | Giuseppe Campari | Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 | 155 | 10:00:0.7 | 1557.754 | 3 | 1 |
Tazio Nuvolari | n/a2 | |||||||
2 | 30 | Ferdinando Minoia | Alfa Romeo 8C-2300 | 153 | +2 laps | 1535.087 | 4 | 2 |
Baconin Borzacchini | n/a2 | |||||||
3 | 14 | Albert Divo | Bugatti T51 | 152 | +3 laps | 1525.319 | 9 | 3 |
Guy Bouriat | 3 | |||||||
4 | 18 | Jean-Pierre Wimille | Bugatti T51 | 138 | +17 laps | 1386.082 | 2 | 4 |
Jean Gaupillat | 4 | |||||||
5 | 22 | Boris Ivanowski | Mercedes-Benz SSK | 134 | +21 laps | 1343.255 | 6 | 4 |
Henri Stoffel | 4 | |||||||
6 | 32 | Francesco Pirola | Alfa Romeo 6C-1500 | 129 | +26 laps | 1290.243 | 14 | 4 |
Giovanni Lurani | 4 | |||||||
7 | 38 | Amedeo Ruggeri | Talbot 700 | 129 | +26 laps | 1290.0003 | 12 | 4 |
Renato Balestrero | 4 | |||||||
8 | 8 | Umberto Klinger | Maserati 26M | 114 | +41 laps | 1140.000 | 13 | 5 |
Pietro Ghersi | 5 | |||||||
Ret | 40 | Carlo di Vecchio | Talbot 700 | 87 | +68 laps | 870.000 | 8 | 5 |
Gerolamo Ferrari | 5 | |||||||
NC4 | 20 | Robert Sénéchal | Delage 15S8 | 81 | +74 Laps | 809.977 | 1 | 5 |
Ret | 16 | Marcel Lehoux | Bugatti T51 | 49 | Con-rod | 490.000 | 5 | 6 |
Philippe Étancelin | 6 | |||||||
Ret | 12 | Achille Varzi | Bugatti T51 | 44 | Differential | 440.000 | 11 | 6 |
Louis Chiron | 6 | |||||||
Ret | 28 | Tazio Nuvolari | Alfa Romeo Type A | 31 | Mechanical | 310.000 | 7 | 7 |
Baconin Borzacchini | 7 | |||||||
Ret | 50 | Alfredo Caniato | Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 | 14 | 140.000 | 10 | 7 | |
Mario Tadini | 7 | |||||||
DNS | 24 | Antonio Maino | Mercedes-Benz SSK | Did not start | 8 | |||
Gildo Strazza | 8 | |||||||
DNS | 36 | Luigi Castelbarco | Maserati 26M | Did not start | 8 | |||
Tino Bianchi | 8 | |||||||
Sources:[1] | ||||||||
- ^2 — Nuvolari and Borzacchini did not receive the points for first and second place, respectively, because they were not driving in their designated cars. The seven points apiece that they received were for driving car #28, which completed less than a quarter of the race distance. Attilio Marinoni and Goffredo Zehender, who had been designated to drive cars #26 and #30, respectively, both received eight points, since they did not take part in the race.[1]
- ^3 — Ruggeri and Balestrero were initially credited with 1290.534 km, putting them in sixth place. However, their final lap took more than five minutes to complete, so the fraction of the lap completed prior to the ten-hour mark was eliminated, demoting the pair to seventh, and promoting Pirola and Lurani to sixth.[1]
- ^4 — Sénéchal was not classified because he failed to complete at least three-fifths of the number of laps achieved by the race winner.[1]
Notes:
- The race was limited to ten hours. Each driver was allowed to complete a lap begun before the ten-hour cutoff (and retain the fraction of the lap already completed), provided that the lap took no more than five minutes.[1]
References
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